Hi,
I've had my Golf GTi for around 6 months now and just bought a VCDS cable. The forum has been a fantastic source of information on the changes possible and I've even managed to get the rain closing function working. However, can someone help with two questions.
1. I can't find 'Battery Charge' under the drop down list of 'Adaptions' within Channel 17 (Instruments). Any reason why this may be so and is there something I need to activate in the long code helper?
2. In some markets the Golf has a 'Air Conditioning Settings' menu within the Car/Setup menu. Can anyone tell me how I could activate this menu?
Thanks for your help.
Neil: Good morning and congratulations on getting the AutoRain Closing function to work. This is one of the more difficult tweaks to get working and I've had quite a few PMs on VWW from folk who couldn't do it!
I'm aware of the tweaks that you have probably also read that describe how there is an adaptation channel called "Battery Charge" in address 17 control module (Instruments). But like you, I've never been able to find it on my admap list. I also have admaps for 8 different vehicles from four different countries and none of those have this adaptation channel as well (although doubtless some have this channel on their cars).
My totally uneducated guess (and it's only a guess) is that for those cars that have SOC (State-of-Charge) already enabled, this adaptation channel isn't accessible via VCDS. This is what happened in my car - SOC was factory enabled when my car was new.
Have you tried the procedure for showing SOC on your car?
(i.e. Ignition-off, hold-down the 0.0 button until the MFD says something like "Battery")
As for the Air-conditioning question, are you talking about the display that appears when you press the SET-UP button on the lower centre knob under the media screen? Or, are you referring to the Air conditioning consumption usage display that appears on the MFD?
If the latter, then this is enabled by pressing the CAR button, then set-up on the next screen, then press the "Multifunction Display" panel, then tick "Convenience consumers". Once this is done, you will find the screen in the same list as the digital speed display (I think it's called "Driver Data")
